wag

vb wags, wagging, wagged

1. to move or cause to move rapidly and repeatedly from side to side or up and down
2. to move (the tongue) or (of the tongue) to be moved rapidly in talking, esp in idle gossip
3. to move (the finger) or (of the finger) to be moved from side to side, in or as in admonition
4. Slang to play truant (esp in the phrase wag it)

n
the act or an instance of wagging
[from Old English wagian to shake; compare Old Norse vagga cradle]

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